Speed Read - Reclaiming our minds

This article summarises "Future Minds" by Richard Warson, who posits that digital addiction and disruptive work environments are making us unable to think properly.

Speed Read - Reclaiming our minds

Martin Bailie

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Digital addiction and disruptive work environments are making us unable to think properly, claims Richard Watson in Future Minds. We must switch off our smartphones and spend more time in the bath

'Futurologist' and strategist Richard Watson discusses an unfashionable idea: that all this connectivity might not, in fact, be good for society or us. While such scepticism of technology's rapid changes is not new, the exhaustive support collected by Watson for this argument is sobering.

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